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  • Campus & Community

    The senator from New York visits Sanders

    Tickets are sold out for a public address by Democratic New York senator and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is scheduled to address the Harvard community during a 3 p.m. speech at Memorial Hall’s Sanders Theater today, March 11.

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    Room haunted by harmony

    Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter, wrote John Keats. In the silence of the Music Buildings Early Instrument Room, the unheard melodies are practically deafening.

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    Erik Erikson

    At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 12, 2002, the following Minute was placed upon the records.

  • Campus & Community

    2002-03 undergraduate fees set

    For the 2002-03 academic year, Harvards package of undergraduate tuition, room, board, and student fees will increase by 4.9 percent, to $35,950. Costs include: tuition, $24,630 room rate, $4,461 board, $4,041 health services fee, $1,020 and student services fee, $1,798.

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    Sharpshooter

    Jeff Winer 04 intently watches the result of his shot during a heated pool match with his friend Victor Lee 05 inside Loker Commons.

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    Center for Public Leadership offers doctoral fellowship

    The Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government has announced the availability of one doctoral fellowship for the 2002-03 academic year. The fellowship, designed to provide the successful applicant with the opportunity to complete, or make significant progress toward the completion of his or her dissertation, is open to any student in…

  • Campus & Community

    Finalists for American Indian awards announced

    The first-ever American Indian tribally operated eagle sanctuary that helps meet a pueblos religious and ceremonial needs, an internationally recognized Native American lacrosse team whose members travel abroad using passports issued by their Indian nation, and a tribal wellness program that prevents and combats diabetes are among the 16 finalists in the Universitys American Indian…

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    HLS expands core faculty

    Continuing to enact a strategic plan that calls for expanding its core faculty and fostering greater student-faculty interaction, Harvard Law School (HLS) has hired two new assistant professors. Ryan Goodman and Guhan Subramanian will officially join the HLS faculty in July and begin teaching in the fall.

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    KSG launches unique fellowship program

    During the first week of September 2001, the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) launched a unique program that brought 13 senior officials studying in an Asian university to take courses with their counterparts at the School.

  • Campus & Community

    In brief

    Dental School offers free screenings

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Project on Justice to co-sponsor peace program

    Harvard Project on Justice to co-sponsor peace program

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    Exploring a various, vibrant ‘Harlemworld’

    Some anthropologists travel thousands of miles to reach their fieldwork sites. John L. Jackson Jr. traveled a few blocks to reach his, but its proximity didnt make gathering or interpreting the data any less challenging. As a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, Jackson conducted his fieldwork in Harlem, just uptown from Columbias main campus.

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    HBS introduces Service Leadership Fellows Program

    Harvard Business School (HBS) officials recently announced the formation of the Service Leadership Fellows Program to encourage students seeking to make a significant contribution to society early in their careers to apply for one- or two-year postgraduate service fellowships.

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    Health problems, job loss intimately related

    The health status of women and their children is a key factor influencing whether single mothers moving off welfare can remain employed, according to a study by researchers at the School of Public Health (SPH). Having a health limitation increased a womans probability of job loss by 57 percent, while having a child with a…

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    New Bauer Laboratory officially dedicated:

    On March 4, President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles officially dedicated Harvards new Bauer Laboratory, which will house the Bauer Center for Genomics Research. The new building was made possible by a major gift from Charles T. (Ted) Bauer 42. For family, friends, alumni/ae, guests,…

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    Radcliffe mounts Sept. 11 exhibit

    Like most of us, Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship was stopped in her tracks by the events of Sept. 11.

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    Above and beyond

    Overachievers?

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    Lookin’ up to heroes

    Just minutes after the Harvard womens basketball team won its seventh Ivy League crown, beating Yale 77-65 on Friday (March 1), senior captain Katie Gates reflected on her own start, as a kid fan of the University of Kansas womens team.

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    The Big Picture

    The father had high expectations for his son, hoping perhaps that he would write great literature one day. So he named the child Shakespeare, no small burden for a boy brought up on a farm on the West Indian island of Dominica. And with a surname of Christmas, you might expect a personage as windy…

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    Welfare helps market fare well

    Most people wouldnt walk a tightrope unless they knew there was a safety net below.

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    Enough sense

    A couple of soaked, silhouetted figures framed by a doorway of Annenberg Hall apparently have enough sense to come in out of the rain.

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    Police reports

    Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending Saturday, March 2. The official log is located at 1033 Massachusetts Ave., sixth floor.

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    This month in Harvard history

    March 27, 1737 – President Benjamin Wadsworth dies in office.

  • Campus & Community

    Faculty council notice for Feb. 20

    At its 11th meeting of the year President Summers met with the Council to discuss the selection of the next dean of the Faculty.

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    Erratum

    In last weeks Harvard in history column, the item for February 1963 incorrectly stated that Harvard University Press had occupied Randall Hall since 1916. The correct occupant was the University Printing Office.

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    Update on negotiations between Harvard and SEIU Local 254

    As a result of productive collective bargaining, Harvard University and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254 have reached agreement on a new contract that will significantly increase wages and address the affordability of health care for Harvards custodial workers. The contract represents the commitment of Harvard and the union to maintaining a constructive…

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    Facing up to modern man

    Daniel Lieberman can see millions of years of human evolution at a glance. The collection of skulls on his office shelves come from chimpanzees, long-extinct humans, and modern men and women. The hollow eye sockets, ancient teeth, and empty skulls pose the same question every day: What made us different from our archaic ancestors?

  • Science & Tech

    Even stars use sunscreen!

    Mira variable stars are named after the red giant star Mira (omicron Ceti) in the constellation Cetus the Whale. Variable stars brighten, then dim, then brighten again. While astronomers have…

  • Science & Tech

    Pollen production — and allergies — may rise significantly over next 50 years

    Ragweed, which flourishes along roadsides and in disturbed habitats throughout North America, produces one of the most common allergens. A study by Harvard researchers found that ragweed grown in an…

  • Health

    Imagination important for children’s cognitive development

    Paul Harris, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, says there are two very different ways to define imagination. “You can either see it as disappearing or waning during…